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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Academic Language Therapy Association
Tilde
Syntax
Accent
ALTA
2. English as a second language
Tactile
Adolf Kusmaul
ESL
Letter naming Chart
3. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Chall's Stage 3
Impulsivity
Ability
Phonological Awareness
4. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
5. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Percentile/ percentile rank
ALTA
Frank Smith
IDEA
6. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonology
Sight Words
Anna Gillingham
7. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Mastery level
Linguistic Method
Standard Scores
Universal Screening
8. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
V >
V-e
Components of Reading Instruction
Profile
9. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
The Norman Conquest
Phonology
Keith Stanovich
Vowel Digraph
10. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Chall's Stage 3
Vowel
Dyslexia
11. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Auditory Learners
VAKT
12. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Dyslexia
Achievement test
Multisensory
Three Layers of Language
13. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Samuel T. Orton
Standard score
Battery
Composite Score
14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Standard deviation
Phonics approach
Pre-English
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
15. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
16. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Diagnostic tests
Expressive language
Age equivalent
Orthography
17. Individual Educational Plan
Suffix
Visual Learners
IEP
Trigraph
18. Final stable syllable
19. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Chall's Stage 4
Derivative
Criterion referenced tests
Modification
20. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Achievement test
Linguistic Method
Percentile/ percentile rank
Three Layers of Language
21. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Accent
Multi-Sensory Approach
Raw score
22. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Morphology
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Diagnostic Teaching
23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Direct Instruction
Whole Language
IEP
24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
The Norman Conquest
Prefix
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Consonant Digraph
25. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Anglo Saxon
Affix
Top-down Reading Approach
Chall's Stage 1
26. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Chall's Stage 2
Vowel Digraph
Social language
27. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Mastery level
Attention
Modern English
Closed Syllable
28. Wide Range Achievement Test
SBOE
WRAT
Three Layers of Language
Breve
29. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Chall's Stage 0
Pre-English
Battery
30. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Tilde
Phonological Awareness
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Towre
31. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Chall's Stage 0
Combination
Profile
32. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
33. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Whole Language
Sound Symbol Association
Vowel
34. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
VAKT
MSL
Base Word
Tilde
35. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Morpheme
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Consonant Digraph
Standard deviation
36. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Phonological Awareness
Phonics approach
IMSLEC
37. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Curriculum referenced tests
Orthography
Vr
Chall's Stage 3
38. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
ADHD
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Accent
Syntax
39. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
40. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Middle English
MSLE
Multisensory
Phonemic/ decodable words
41. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Profile
Anglo Saxon
Macron
Old English
42. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Morphology
Open Syllable
GORT
43. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
IEP
Vowel Digraph
Analytic
44. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Morpheme
Accent
45. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Impulsivity
WIATII
Phoneme
Oral Language
46. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Keith Stanovich
Morphology
Consonant Digraph
47. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Breve
Chall's Stage 5
Simultaneous teaching
Vowel
48. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Composite Score
Six basic types of syllables
Tactile
Auditory Learners
49. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Grapheme
Achievement test
Mastery level
Social language
50. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
James Hinshelwood
Suffix
Diagnostic tests